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during the past year. During 1875 there were 3096
deaths registered; in 1876, 3154; in 1877, 2991. This is
a decrease in spite of increase of population, so that the
diminution is really greater than it appears in figures. Of
these deaths 1505 were of males, and 1496 of females.
The death-rate according to the official population is
18.7 per 1000, or 1 in 53 persons living. This is the lowest
death-rate for the past ten years, with the exception of
two (1872 and 1873), during which the same rate of
mortality occurred. But if we take the more satisfactory
estimate of the population, obtained as above explained,
into account, we find that the death-rate is reduced to
16.5. It must also be remembered that many public
institutions, which yield an abnormally high death-rate,
exist in the District. The following Table gives the proportion
which each Sub-district bears in the total deathrate,
and also the alteration which the exclusion of the
deaths of non-parishioners in public institutions makes
upon these death-rates.
SUB-DISTRICTS.
Officially estimated
Population
in the middle of
Deaths.
Ratio of
Deaths to
Population.
Excluding Non-
Parishioners
who have Died
in Public
Institutions.
1876 1877 1876 1877 1876 1877 1877
Battersea 70,144 75,606 1,745 1,726 1 in 40 1 in 43 1 in 52
Wandsworth 23,169 23,806 461 384 1 in 50 1 in 62 1 in 78
Clapham 30,734 31,381 545 467 1 in 56 1 in 67 1 in 68
Streatham, Tooting, & Balham 16,781 17,227 260 244 1 in 64 1 in 70 } In appreciable difference
Putney & Roehampton 10,990 11,287 143 170 1 in 77 1 in 66 }
It will be seen that Wandsworth, excluding deaths in
public institutions, has the lowest death-rate. Streatham,
Clapham, Putney and Battersea stand in the order as
named. Thus Wandsworth and Putney have exactly
changed places in this Table since last year.